These Pirates just are not good. They’ve been a Wild Card team for each of the past three years and averaged 93 wins a year from 2013-2015, a decisive break from their twenty consecutive losing seasons.
But right now they’re 53-53 and the face of the franchise, Andrew McCutchen, has been so lost all year that they benched him for the entire Braves series. I don’t mind kicking a team while they’re down, but the Braves winning the series probably says more about them than it does about us.
Still, the Braves are 6-4 in their last ten games, and the offense has played a big part.